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'''Mass rape of German women by Soviet Red Army''' refers to the rape of up to two million German women during the last six months of ], around 100,000 of them in ], based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports. <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml</ref><ref>Hanna Schissler ''The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968'' </ref><ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106687768</ref> 240 000 women died as a result. <ref>Helke Sander/Barbara Johr: ''BeFreier und Befreite'', Fischer, Frankfurt 2005</ref><ref>Seidler/]: ''Kriegsverbrechen in Europa und im Nahen Osten im 20. Jahrhundert'', Mittler, Hamburg Berlin Bonn 2002</ref> ] describes it as the "greatest phenomenon of mass ] in history". <ref>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/16/1052885399546.html</ref> According to Natalya Gesse, a close friend of the ] ] ] "The Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty." <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11</ref> After the summer of 1945, Soviet soldiers caught raping civilians were usually punished to some degree, ranging from arrest to execution.<ref>Norman M. Naimark. ''The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949.'' Cambridge: Belknap, 1995 p. 92 ISBN 0-674-78405-7</ref> The rapes continued, however, until the winter of 1947-48, when Soviet occupation authorities finally confined Soviet troops to strictly guarded posts and camps,“<ref>Naimark. ''The Russians in Germany'', p. 79</ref> completely separating them from the residential population in the Soviet zone of Germany. |
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'''Mass rape of German women by Soviet Red Army''' refers to the rape of up to two million German women during the last six months of ], around 100,000 of them in ], based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports. <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml</ref><ref>Hanna Schissler ''The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968'' </ref><ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106687768</ref> 240 000 women died as a result. <ref>Helke Sander/Barbara Johr: ''BeFreier und Befreite'', Fischer, Frankfurt 2005</ref><ref>Seidler/]: ''Kriegsverbrechen in Europa und im Nahen Osten im 20. Jahrhundert'', Mittler, Hamburg Berlin Bonn 2002</ref> ] describes it as the "greatest phenomenon of mass ] in history". <ref>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/16/1052885399546.html</ref> According to Natalya Gesse, a close friend of the ] ] ] "The Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty." <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11</ref> After the summer of 1945, Soviet soldiers caught raping civilians were usually punished to some degree, ranging from arrest to execution.<ref>Norman M. Naimark. ''The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949.'' Cambridge: Belknap, 1995 p. 92 ISBN 0-674-78405-7</ref> The rapes continued, however, until the winter of 1947-48, when Soviet occupation authorities finally confined Soviet troops to strictly guarded posts and camps,“<ref>Naimark. ''The Russians in Germany'', p. 79</ref> completely separating them from the residential population in the Soviet zone of Germany. |
